Where rich countries are grabbing up land around the world
►http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/where-rich-countries-are-grabbing-up-land-around-the-world
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that most of the world’s countries had bought or sold land internationally as of 2012 – 126 of the 195 countries recognized by the UN, according to their report. But the trade is dominated by just a few players, namely China, the U.K. and the U.S.
The global land trade also appears to reflect the uneven power relationship between the rich and the poor. With a few notable exceptions, the more developed countries of North America and Europe, Asia’s emerging economies, and the oil exporters of the Middle East are the ones buying up land, while the countries selling land are poorer nations in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.
▻http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/114006/pdf